Machine for forming wire articles



June v22 1926.

W..H. HERN MACHINE FOR FORMING WIRE ARTICLES Filed April .25. 1925- Patented June 22, 1926.

UNITED STATES WILLIAM H. HERN', F WESTVILLE, OKLAHOMA.

MACHINE FOR FOR'MING WIRE ARTICLES.

Application filed April 25, 1925.

The present invention relates to machines or devices for forming wire articles, and particularly clothes pins and analogous articles.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a simple, cheap and durable device or machine for the purpose specified which can be easily operated, and capable of turning out a large number of the articles with the expenditure of the minimum amount of time and labor.

With the above and numerous other objects in view the invention resides in certain novel features of construction, and in the combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawing Figure 1 is an elevation of the machine embodying the features of my invention.

Figure 2 is a vertical section taken therethrough substantially on the line 22 of Figure 1 looking in the direction of the arrow, and

Figure 3 is a detail perspective view of a head which is rotated by a shaft forming part of the machine.

Figure 4 is a perspective view of a clothes pin capable of being formed by my machine.

Referring to the drawing in detail, it will be seen that the frame indicated generally by the letter F includes a pair of uprights 5 mounted on a base 6 and braced in relation to each other by an intermediately disposed horizontal bar 7. The uprights 5 are braced in respect to the base by slanting braces 8. Cross members 9 are connected to the uprights 5 and the respective braces 8. A box 10 is mounted between the upper end of the uprights 5 and is adapted to hold a plurality of lengths of wire for forming the articles to be manufactured.

A shaft 11 is journaled through the uprights 5 below the box 10 and has an operating crank 12 on one end thereof. A spacing sleeve 13 is disposed on the shaft between Serial No. 25,860.

the uprights 5. A head 14 is mounted on the other end of the shaft, and includes a cylindrical. body having a pair of pins 16 extending in parallel relation to each other from the end of the body, and a radially and.

outwardly extending pin 17 disposed on the intermediate portion of the body.

In using the machine, a length of wire may be disposed with one end between the pins 16, and by rotating the shaft, a hook or looped end 20 might be formed. If a hook or looped end is formed with the pins 16, said hook or looped end may be engaged over the pin 17 and the shaft further rotated, thereby forming a loop or convolution 21 in the length of the wire. The other end of the length of wire is looped as at 23 in the same manner as the loop 20 was formed. It is obvious from the above that clothes pins? and numerous other like wire articles may be formed quickly and cheaply with the expenditure of a minimum amount of time and labor. The advantages, utility, and operation of the invention should now be clearly understood by those familiar with the manufacture of wire articles without a more detailed description thereof. It is obvious that numerous changes in the details of construction, and in the combination and arrangementof parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as hereinafter claimed or sacrificing any of its advantages.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is A machine of the class described including a frame, a shaft journaled in the frame, means for rotating the shaft, a head on one end of the shaft, a pair of spaced parallel pins extending from the end of the head in parallel offset relation with the axis thereof, and a pin extending radially from the head.

In testimony whereof I my signature.

WILLIAM H. HERN. 

